Italian high jumper Elena Vallortigara (© Giancarlo Colombo)
Elena Vallortigara stars in the ninth episode of the latest season of IAAF Inside Athletics.
The Italian high jumper first came into prominence as a teenager, taking bronze at the 2007 World Youth Championships and bronze again three years later at the 2010 World Junior Championships before she went on to clear 1.91m that year, a national U20 record.
But then a long string of injuries followed, curtailing her progress until last season, when, fully healthy for the first time in nearly a decade, she began a steady improvement, capped by a 2.02m clearance at the Diamond League meeting in London.
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